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A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_
A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_
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2013-11-10
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问题
A young consultant’s life is tiring. A(1)_____ week starts before dawn on Monday, with a rush to the airport and a flight to(2)_____ the client is based. He can(3)_____ to stay in hotels at least three nights a week, gorging on minibar peanuts and gloomily texting a(n)(4)_____ lover. "It’s quite (5)_____ to spend a year living out of a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant.
So the job(6)_____ "insecure overachievers"— a phrase(7)_____ used in the industry—"who are always worried that they haven’t done enough work," jokes a consultant. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers. Most(8)_____ within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the business world,(9)_____ their experience and(10)_____ allow them to slot in several levels(11)_____ their less-travelled counterparts.
The elite consultancies have offices in big cities, which is where(12)_____ young people want to live. The best-paid jobs are in places(13)_____ London and New York. Such cities are also where the culture and dating(14)_____ are richest.
Such attitudes are frustrating for firms in Portsmouth or Peoria.(15)_____ consultancies benefit from it. They(16)_____ bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to firms in the sticks. This is one(17)_____ why consultants have to travel so much.
The system(18)______, more or less, for everyone. Firms in the provinces get to borrow talent they could not(19)_____ hire. And young consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all,(20)_____ enough sleep.
(5)
选项
A、irregular
B、moderate
C、extreme
D、normal
答案
D
解析
living out of a suitcase是一个固定用法,意为“忙于奔波”,由上文可知,年轻咨询师一整年到处奔波是常态,故用normal“平常的”。irregular“不规则的”;moderate“中等的”;extreme“极端的”。
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